Your Bolga basket purchase gives 5 days of fair trade income (over twice the minimum wage) to G-lish weavers. Having spent a lifetime honing their craft, G-lish skilled weavers produce beautiful products and weavers are paid fairly for their work. Unlike traditional aid organisations, G-lish uses sales and trade, not aid, to provide income to the community. G-lish Foundation works with 75 producers and that income helps G-lish producers educate their children.

G-lish weavers use 270-300 recycled plastic bag twines in every recycled Bolga basket. Since G-lish began producing baskets using recycled pure water plastic bags in 2010, we have consumed 368,000 plastic bags. The fact that each Modern Basket uses at least 270 pure water plastic bags means that we consume a lot of recycled plastic every year.

Upon waking this morning, we were greeted with this visually stunning story about G-lish Foundation on Recycled Interiors, a site and business managed by Helen Edwards in South Australia. A little about Recycled Interiors: "Recycled Interiors has a focus on health & wellbeing – in the home, at the individual level and from an environmental perspective – believing that design, architecture and interior decoration should focus on the health of people and planet, alongside function and form. We encourage people to use a blend of sustainable, locally designed, upcycled and vintage pieces in decorating their homes."